14 APRIL 1928, Page 18

• "THE OPEN CONSPIRACY" • [To the Editor of the

SPECTATOR.] Sui,—In your Book Notes of April 7th it is stated that Mr. AL G. Wells begins his novel, The Open Conspiracy, in T.P.'s Weekly, and that the "bits we are given suffer, we imagine, from the editorial necessity for selection and compression." I beg to remark that The Open Conspiracy is not a .novel—Mr. Wells -describes it as his final summing up on the duty and destiny of man ; and that the publication which appears in T.P.'s Weekly has been neither selected nor compressed, but is the work in its entirety.—! am, Sir, &c., Farringdon Street, E.C. 4.